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Highways England Archaeologists expose jails, bombs and mapping mysteries in Hull
Highways England Archaeologists expose jails, bombs and mapping mysteries in Hull A 235-year-old prison, a suspected Second World War bomb explosion and mysterious buildings that don’t appear on any m...
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Reston Waste Management expands with Hyundai Equipment
Reston Waste Management expands with Hyundai Equipment Reston Waste Management is a South West London skip hire and waste collection business who rose from humble beginnings. Back in 2001 Andrew Resto...
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Tyre Boss expands popular tyre fill services
Tyre Boss expands popular tyre fill services Best known for supplying and fitting specialist solid tyres, Tyre Boss can also source and supply pretty much any off-highway tyre solution. This includes...
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Greater Manchester Police using Road Safety Support speedometer calibration services
Greater Manchester Police using Road Safety Support speedometer calibration services Greater Manchester Police has become the latest force to appoint the Road Safety Support Speed Test Laboratory to c...
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Unique Autonomous Vehicle Development Centre in the UK nears completion
Unique Autonomous Vehicle Development Centre in the UK nears completion Self-driving vehicles are a significant step closer to becoming a reality on public roads with the construction of a revolutiona...
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Unique stainless steel and concrete bridge built in Cumbria to combat flooding risk
Unique stainless steel and concrete bridge built in Cumbria to combat flooding risk A new stainless steel and concrete bridge, the first of its kind in the UK, has opened to pedestrians and vehicles i...
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Experts discuss and debate the Future of Smart Cities in a Post-Pandemic World
Experts discuss and debate the Future of Smart Cities in a Post-Pandemic World Doha, Singapore, and Amsterdam are represented in a virtual summit hosted by Msheireb Downtown Doha, one of world’s smart...
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MB Crusher highlights 5 exceptional contractors with extreme job sites
MB Crusher highlights 5 exceptional contractors with extreme job sites How to save thousands of dollars while developing nine thousand kilometres (five thousand five hundred and ninety two miles) of l...
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Vodafone UK expands services to remove barriers to IoT adoption
Vodafone UK expands services to remove barriers to IoT adoption Vodafone UK is launching a new range of IoT services that will remove barriers to IoT adoption for UK businesses. By partnering with IoT...
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Network Rail’s new road-to-rail vehicle can reach emergencies faster
Network Rail’s new road-to-rail vehicle can reach emergencies faster Emergency services will have a better chance of saving lives when responding to incidents in the Severn Tunnel thanks to a ne...
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Fugro contract in Romania supports World Bank’s flood hazard and risk mapping
Fugro contract in Romania supports World Bank’s flood hazard and risk mapping Fugro has been awarded a Geo-data acquisition contract to support the World Bank in its efforts to support the Gover...
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Aggregate Industries introduces range of new asphalt products
Aggregate Industries introduces range of new asphalt products Leading construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has launched four new products, further bolstering its asphalt offering. The...
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Tachyum joins I4DI to develop the world’s fastest AI Supercomputer in Slovakia
Tachyum joins I4DI to develop the world’s fastest AI Supercomputer in Slovakia Tachyum has announced the formation of I4DI (Innovations for Digital Infrastructure), a partnership of innovative E...
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Aggregate Industries launches its Career Kickstart Programme 2020
Aggregate Industries launches its Career Kickstart Programme 2020 Committed to supporting the government’s pledge to provide skills and training for young people, Aggregate Industries has launched its...
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VINCI Energies acquires Eltek Systems to expand automation and process control
VINCI Energies acquires Eltek Systems to expand automation and process control Electrical, Automation and ICT engineering services provider, VINCI Energies UK & RoI has strengthened its industrial...
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Abseiling and diving all part of the job for Highways England engineers and inspectors
Abseiling and diving all part of the job for Highways England engineers and inspectors A two-year routine maintenance programme on a bridge used by around 23,000 drivers a day has recently completed –...
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Finning apprenticeship training scheme wins UK recognition
Finning apprenticeship training scheme wins UK recognition Finning UK and Ireland has been awarded a national accolade for its outstanding apprenticeship programmes, scooping a place in the government...
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Fleet of Effidence robotic stackers assist Rhenus logistics services
Fleet of Effidence robotic stackers assist Rhenus logistics services This new season is marked by the realization of a joint project between Rhenus, one of the world’s leading logistics services...
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Doka makes an impression with their fair-faced concrete
Doka makes an impression with their fair-faced concrete The new headquarters of Banca Transilvania, situated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is an office building, which covers an area of more than 40,000 m²...
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Lotus Engineering opens Battery Test Facility to support Electric Vehicle boom
Lotus Engineering opens Battery Test Facility to support Electric Vehicle boom Lotus Engineering is launching a pilot containerised battery testing facility to assess energy storage solutions for the...
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Speed warning signs installed by SWARCO Traffic for Melsonby Parish Council
Speed warning signs installed by SWARCO Traffic for Melsonby Parish Council An intelligent and reliable Vehicle Activated Sign (VAS) specified and installed by SWARCO Traffic, the traffic technology s...
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Jaguar Land Rover testing self-driving technology with Smart City Hub
Jaguar Land Rover testing self-driving technology with Smart City Hub Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with global software, mobility and telecoms companies to create a smart city hub that will allow r...
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Two SENNEBOGEN 355 E Telehandlers replace three wheel loaders in Austria
Two SENNEBOGEN 355 E Telehandlers replace three wheel loaders in Austria For over 40 years AWV Liezen has been the central location for waste management in the Liezen district. Using state-of-the-art...
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Unloading steel wire in Belgium made easy with SENNEBOGEN 870 Port Material Handler
Unloading steel wire in Belgium made easy with SENNEBOGEN 870 Port Material Handler DD Shipping NV, member of the Square Group, is a stevedoring company for dry bulk goods and general cargo. The compa...
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Fetch.ai and Datarella announce Smart City Infrastructure Trials In Munich
Fetch.ai and Datarella announce Smart City Infrastructure Trials In Munich Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access decentralized machine learning network for sm...
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Highways England gets the go ahead for A303 bypass around Stonehenge
Highways England gets the go ahead for A303 bypass around Stonehenge Here’s how future journeys past Stonehenge could look after Highways England’s plans to unlock congestion and transform journeys fo...
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STRABAG wins 55 km railway line upgrade contract in Hungary
STRABAG wins 55 km railway line upgrade contract in Hungary STRABAG, the European-based technology partner for construction services, has been awarded the contract to upgrade an approximately 55 km lo...
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SENNEBOGEN 640 E dragline crane digs in for Adam Frères in France
SENNEBOGEN 640 E dragline crane digs in for Adam Frères in France For three generations, the family company ADAM Frères has specialized in the extraction, distribution and transport of aggregates and...
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sees.ai wins UK Government drone funding to protect workers in highway infrastructure
sees.ai wins UK Government drone funding to protect workers in highway infrastructure Advance drone system sees.ai, leading a consortium of eight partners that includes Atkins, has won a share of £30...
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Network Rail begins work on second section of new Dawlish sea wall
Network Rail begins work on second section of new Dawlish sea wall Network Rail has started work on the second section of the new, bigger sea wall at Dawlish, in Devon, which will provide greater prot...
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Pioneering fluid analysis lab keeps construction machines up and running
Pioneering fluid analysis lab keeps construction machines up and running Fluid analysis reveals a lot about the health of a machine. Finning UK & Ireland, official distributor for Caterpillar® equ...
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EMEC-Prototyping celebrates 10 year anniversary with new HQ and larger test lab
EMEC-Prototyping celebrates 10 year anniversary with new HQ and larger test lab EMEC-Prototyping’s history started 10 years ago with Powertools development for the company Bosch. Test benches and proc...
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Southampton University process for turning carbon emissions into plastics
Southampton University process for turning carbon emissions into plastics Scientists from the University of Southampton have invented a hybrid catalyst platform that can efficiently and sustainably c...
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Sika expanding production in France
Sika expanding production in France Sika has started production of shotcrete admixtures at its main plant at Gournay-en-Bray, north west of Paris. The set accelerator marketed under the Sigunit® brand...
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Cadent the first utility company to join the UK’s Local Council Roads Innovation Group
Cadent the first utility company to join the UK’s Local Council Roads Innovation Group Cadent, the UK’s largest gas distribution network, has become the first utility company to join the Local C...
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Kar-go Delivery Bot begins contactless delivery trials to care homes in the UK
Kar-go Delivery Bot begins contactless delivery trials to care homes in the UK Kar-go, an autonomous delivery vehicle designed by British start-up, Academy of Robotics, becomes the first custom-built...
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Highways England announces M6 Motorway roadworks set to finish six months early
Highways England announces M6 Motorway roadworks set to finish six months early Major roadworks on the M6 in Staffordshire are set to finish six months ahead of schedule thanks to the introduction of...
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Eurovia UK investing in creating opportunities for young people in highways
Eurovia UK investing in creating opportunities for young people in highways As recent government announcements have highlighted, the need for transformational investment in training and skills, has ne...
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Middlesbrough Council completes the A66 throughabout
Middlesbrough Council completes the A66 throughabout WORKS to introduce a major improvement scheme at one of the busiest junctions in Middlesbrough are now complete. The A66/A171 Cargo Fleet Junction...
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DOKA Citygate project highlights the potential of BIM and 3D
DOKA Citygate project highlights the potential of BIM and 3D One of Northern Europe’s tallest office buildings is rising into the sky in the Gårda district in Göteborg. The 144 metre high buildi...
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Standard Plant Hire expands fleet with VolvoCE Excavators
Standard Plant Hire expands fleet with VolvoCE Excavators Since purchasing its first Volvo excavators in the spring of 2019, Bromley based Standard Plant Hire Ltd has added a further four, twenty tonn...
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UK construction companies urged to act quickly to take advantage of tax relief benefits
UK construction companies urged to act quickly to take advantage of tax relief benefits Companies are being urged to act quickly to ensure they take full advantage of tax relief for the purchase of pl...
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Vivacity Labs to deploy AI-controlled road junctions in Greater Manchester
Vivacity Labs to deploy AI-controlled road junctions in Greater Manchester Vivacity Labs and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have announced the roll out of AI-controlled ‘smart’ traffic juncti...
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Tomorrow’s Engineers Week reveals online plans to inspire future Engineers
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week reveals online plans to inspire future Engineers Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, now in its eighth year, has come to a close with the announcement of a new online hub to pro...
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M56 Motorway upgrade starts near Manchester
M56 Motorway upgrade starts near Manchester The main construction work on the region’s latest motorway upgrade, along the M56 in Greater Manchester and Cheshire, will get underway this month. The four...
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Volkswagen and Greece to establish ground-breaking mobility system on Astypalea
Volkswagen and Greece to establish ground-breaking mobility system on Astypalea The Volkswagen Group and Greece have agreed to establish a ground-breaking mobility system on the Mediterranean island o...
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Italian Army assess Milrem Robotics autonomous THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle
Italian Army assess Milrem Robotics autonomous THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle The European leading robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics demonstrated their autonomous THeMIS unmann...
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Robotic Pothole Innovation plans to revolutionise road repairs
Robotic Pothole Innovation plans to revolutionise road repairs University spin out, Robotiz3d, is to begin developing the world’s first autonomous robot to patrol the streets in search of potholes, fo...
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Six pilot PPP projects could attract $2 Billion for Ukraine’s roads
Six pilot PPP projects could attract $2 Billion for Ukraine’s roads A new study reveals that properly structured public-private partnership (PPP) projects can help Ukraine attract potential inve...
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Highways England spots ten thousand tailgaters in just two weeks
Highways England spots ten thousand tailgaters in just two weeks Almost 10,000 vehicles were caught tailgating in the first two weeks of new cameras being tested to clamp down on the offence. Highways...
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